I’ve been playing and enjoying other classes for years, but I just recently leveled my character to 60 on scholar class. I was interested in scholar because of:
  • Their clever weapons (books),
  • Their excellent hats (mortarboard at Level 50, steampunk tophat at Level 60), and
  • Their quick queues into dungeons (as healers).
I was surprised and fascinated by the scholar storyline, especially when I learned that “Tonberries are the old citizens of the Nymian civilization, destroyed by a mysterious disease called the ‘Green Death’ or ‘Sickness from the Sea’ that turned most of its population into the creatures” (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Tonberry).

The scholar quest-giver, Surito Carito, was worried that I might have caught the disease, so he asked me whether my ears or nose had started symptoms of rotting and falling off. When I realized that we’re the “before and after” of the disease, I was inspired to make a tonberry "ogre pumpkin" this year! :)

Caption: FFXIV Tonberry Scholar Jack O'Lantern
Entrant: Luluca Luca (Exodus)
Prize Selection: Bluebird Earring